-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Gilbert Bland/Map Thief Again? REPORT IT! Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:42:32 -0500 (EST) From: [log in to unmask] To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]> Gilbert Bland was the "posterboy" (i.e. thief) that was the subject of Miles Harvey's "The Island of Lost Maps." > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Gilbert Bland/Map Thief Again? REPORT IT! > Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:23:38 -0700 > From: [log in to unmask] > To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum > <[log in to unmask]> > > > > Hi, > > I know nothing about Gilbert Bland other than a few emails here. > > Has someone called this person to verify the identity? Has someone > notified Ebay? If this guy is a serious problem, call the cops. > Don't wait for someone else to do it. Otherwise, all of this chatter > is gossip and fearmongering. > > --cjjt > >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Re: Gilbert Bland/Map Thief Again? >> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:32:15 -0500 (EST) >> From: [log in to unmask] >> To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum >> <[log in to unmask]> >> >> >> >> Last mail address/phone off ebay: >> >> South East Numismatic Co. >> P.O. Box 4455 >> North Myrtle Beach, SC 29597 >> United States >> (843) 745-0378 >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >>> Subject: RE: Gilbert Bland/Map Thief Again? >>> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:02:12 -0500 >>> From: Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr. <[log in to unmask]> >>> To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum >>> <[log in to unmask]> >>> >>> >>> >>> A quick search of Google on "scframers" shows someone selling maps >>> under >>> this name in eBay. They are listed in the Antiques section, most seem >>> to >>> be 19th century. There are pages from an A.C. Black atlas (United >>> States, >>> Mexico, among others), and an 1891 atlas of the Civil War. Various >>> others >>> from early and late 19th century. >>> >>> Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]> >>> Maps Librarian Phone: 513-529-1726 >>> Miami University Libraries >>> Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum >>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope >>> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 1:28 PM >>> To: [log in to unmask] >>> Subject: Gilbert Bland/Map Thief Again? >>> >>> -------- Original Message -------- >>> Subject: Fw: Gilbert Bland/Map Thief Again? >>> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:23:11 -0500 >>> From: [log in to unmask] >>> To: [log in to unmask] >>> >>> >>> And have a depressing New Year everyone! >>> >>> see below >>> >>> Alice C. Hudson >>> Chief, The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division >>> The Humanities and Social Sciences Library >>> The New York Public Library >>> 5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117 >>> New York, NY 10018-2788 >>> >>> [log in to unmask], 212-930-0589, fax 212-930-0027 >>> >>> Hours: 1-7:30 Tu & Wed, 1-6 Thurs-Sat. Closed Sun, Mon. >>> >>> http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html >>> >>> >>> ----- Forwarded by ahudson/MHT/Nypl on 01/03/2008 01:20 PM ----- >>> >>> >>> Subject >>> Gilbert Bland/Map Thief Again? >>> >>> Dear Friends, >>> >>> It appears Gilbert Bland is stealing maps again. >>> >>> There is someone based in Maryland who is moving covertly about the >>> east coast selling relatively low end maps from government >>> publications via email under the name scframers. A dealer in >>> Colorado got suspicious and did some background checking and has >>> concluded that it is almost certainly Gil Bland. He is masked >>> behind a series of aliases, wrong phone numbers and similar barriers >>> to the discovery of his identity, but the case is fairly compelling: >>> >>> 1. Same type of material--primarly low priced government report >>> type material, but periodically better material. >>> 2. Working the east coast, but based in Maryland >>> 3. Also pursuing Scripophily (hope I spelled that right!). >>> 4. Mail order type operation. >>> 5. At least one deep search caused an even more direct connection >>> to Bland's prior business name. >>> >>> Not sure what the best approach is to tracking this down, but he's >>> using the mail, shipping interstate, so its a Federal offense. >>> >>> -- >>> Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. >>> 1298 Prospect, Suite 2C >>> La Jolla, CA 92037 >>> (858) 551-8500 >>> (858) 551-8593 (fax) >>> [log in to unmask] >>> www.raremaps.com >>> > > > > Christopher J.J. Thiry > Map Librarian > Arthur Lakes Library > Colorado School of Mines > 1400 Illinois > PO Box 4029 > Golden, CO 80401 > > phone: 303-273-3697 > fax: 303-273-3199 > email: [log in to unmask] > web: www.mines.edu/library/maproom > web: www.mines.edu/fs_home/cthiry >